2 May 2012: My third Kindle book, The English Dead, a story which was originally published in Hub, was published today. Available from Amazon everywhere.

2 April 2012: My second Kindle book, Human Nature, was published today. It collects my three Nature 'Futures' stories: The Last Botnet, String-driven Thing, and Dark They Were, and Strange Inside. Available from Amazon everywhere.

29 February 2012: My first Kindle book, Alternate Apollos, was published today. It collects three of my previously published short stories: Moon Flu, Sons of the Earth and Dying of the Light. Available from Amazon everywhere.

28 January 2012: My Mars-set SF story, First and Third, has been published in Postscripts 26/27: Unfit for Eden (available from: http://www.pspublishing.co.uk/postscripts-26-27-unfit-for-eden-jhc-edited-by-nick-gevers--peter-crowther-1115-p.asp)

www.amazon.com/The-English-Dead-ebook/dp/B007ZNE27W/ref=sr_1_1



Also available from www.amazon.com/Vaughan-Stanger/e/B007FP6ZIO/ref=ntt_athr_dp_pel_pop_2 are two mini-collections:



UK-based folk can purchase them from here: www.amazon.co.uk/s/ref=nb_sb_noss

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My third ebook has just been published in a Kindle edition. The English Dead was originally published in Issue 36 of Hub. This short story remains one of my personal favourites, so I'm hugely grateful to Lee Harris, the chief editor of Hub, for having published it in the first place.

Once again, the cover is by my close friend, Tony Hughes.



(A larger version of the cover art is here)

From the review in The Fix (14/1/08): “The English Dead” is an excellent story and fundamentally good SF.... The climbing lingo reads authentically to a layman like myself. The obsessions of the tale’s central characters are well-portrayed, informing their decisions and actions as they move towards a convincing conclusion.

The English Dead is available to purchase from Amazon.com and Amazon.co.uk, also from the Eurozone Amazons.

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Congratulations to the Concatenation team, who deservedly won the 2012 Eurocon Award for best web site.

I'm delighted Concatenation received this recognition, not least because they reprinted one of my Nature Futures stories (Dark They Were, and Strange Inside) in December 2011. A tiny contribution to their web site, undoubtedly, but a contribution all the same.

:-)

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Alternate Apollos, my first ebook, is at #48 in the Amazon.co.uk chart for paid-for SF short fiction available in Kindle editions. Check out numbers 41-60; there are some big hitters in that list.

Also available on other Amazons.



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Originally published in Postscripts #9, The Peace Criminal has just been reprinted on-line in issue 6 of Lacuna: A Journal of Historical Fiction.

This the first time this 6000 word story has been free to read. The illustrations are wonderful. Big thanks go to Megan Arkenberg for providing an on-line home for my story.

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In SF Revu's review of Postscripts 26/27 'Unfit for Eden':

"First and Third" by Vaughan Stanger – Joe loves Maisie, even though she's dead. He keeps her mind alive, downloaded on some sort of server. He wants to keep her going until she achieves something called Rapture. It would take too long to explain the intricacies of all this. He makes a living on Mars repairing robots, but he's on the run from the law. Things get more complicated after that. Joe and Maisie are characters you'll like and that's enough for any story.

I'll take that.

:-)

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Human Nature compiles my three Nature 'Futures' short-shorts (The Last Botnet, String-driven Thing and Dark They Were, and Strange Inside) into a handsomely packaged e-book for Kindle and Kindle-emulating apps (for iPhone, iPad, Android, PC,...). Dark They Were... was ranked among The Science Fact & Science Fiction Concatenation's favourite 'Futures' published in 2010.

Once again, the cover is by good friend Tony Hughes.




Human Nature is available to purchase for tiny amounts of e-cash from:
www.amazon.co.uk/Human-Nature-ebook/dp/B007QTRAGU/ref=sr_1_2
or,
www.amazon.com/Human-Nature-ebook/dp/B007QTRAGU/ref=sr_1_2
(also the European Amazons)

Enjoy!
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I've just published my first e-book.

Alternate Apollos is a Kindle chapbook that collects three of my previously published stories, namely Moon Flu, Sons of the Earth and Dying of the Light (originally published in Hub as TLP). It's available from Amazon.com and Amazon.co.uk (also the European Amazons) for tiny amounts of your e-cash.

http://www.amazon.com/Alternate-Apollos-ebook/dp/B007ESJNFE/ref=ntt_at_ep_dpt_1

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Alternate-Apollos-ebook/dp/B007ESJNFE/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1330603167&sr=8-1

If you don't have a Kindle, fear not! The iPhone/iPad Kindle apps are free, likewise the Kindle for PC (etc) download. Please spread the word!

The cover is by my dear friend, Tony Hughes (no, he's not on-line). Needless to say, I'm delighted with it.

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Over at LJ, Nancy Fulda, the esteemed director of the wonder-of-the-Internet that is AnthologyBuilder, has announced that my most recent anthology, March of the Robots, is Anthology of the Week. Yay for discounts!



Needless to say, there's lots of excellent robot-themed fiction beneath that stylish Frank Wu cover.

G'wan. You know you want to!

:-)

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My Mars-set SF story, First and Third, has been published in Postscripts 26/27: Unfit for Eden (available from PS Publishing).

Here's the superb (IMHO) cover:



I'm fortunate indeed to appear in a ToC as illustrious as this:

• Michael Bishop - Unfit for Eden
• Darrell Schweitzer - True Blue
• Mike Chinn - Saving Prince Romero
• Richard Calder - Madeline Smith
• Quentin S. Crisp - Non-Attachment
• Matthew Hughes - The Scribe of Betelgeuse V
• Eric Brown - The Room Beyond
• Thomas Olde Heuvelt - The Boy Who Cast No Shadow
• Christopher Harman - The Reader
• Robert Reed - Emergence
• Greg Ouiring - The Man Who Hated Shakespeare
• Amber D. Sistla - The Summer of Our Discontent
• Mike Resnick - A Weighty Affair
• George Hulseman - The Sea Witch
• Vaughan Stanger - First and Third
• Lavie Tidhar - Black Gods Kiss
• Robert T. Jeschonek - Warning! Do Not Read This Story!
• Steven Utley - Crime and Punishment
• Simon Unsworth - Borough Station
• Jessica Reisman - The Bottom Garden
• Kit Reed - Tasmin
• Andrew Drummond - Dr. Calvin’s Grand Illuminated Bestial Pleasure Dome
• Michael Swanwick - Pushkin the American
• Michael Kelly - Conversations with the Dead
• Eric Schaller - The Parasite
• Neal Barrett, Jr. - Trash

If you're interested in buying this print anthology, please follow this link.
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